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20190625
Important:
Important Notice: CMOMM and MMRG A New Initiative
To heighten awareness of the extensive work of CMOMM and the MMRG over the past years, thanks to forum owner Jill Havern's commitment, hard work and talent for design, a new initiative has today been launched in the form of a blog.

Initially built on the latest CMOMM forum addition, the MMRG forum, the new blog is to provide a 'straight- to' comprehensive information source, presented in a format designed to facilitate direct and easy access to forum research.

The admin team hope you will find this a useful tool and that you enjoy the new venture. It is after all for you

by Verdi - Comments: 2 - Views: 495
20190429
Important:
Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) Mission Statement

In this section of CMOMM, we present the research work of the Madeleine McCann Research group (MMRG) launched today on, what many of us believe is, the real 12th anniversary...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 1 - Views: 1091

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20190701

Carter-Ruck blog: THE LEVESON INQUIRY – VICTIMS OF THE MEDIA TURN THE TABLES ON THE PRESS
Posted on 27 November 2011 by Carter-Ruck

The Leveson Inquiry has been making headline news on an almost daily basis since it began to hear the evidence of a number of victims of the media. While the Inquiry was largely prompted by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, it is considering evidence on far wider issues of press conduct, of which the testimony of Kate and Gerry McCann has proven a powerful example.

After their daughter Madeleine was abducted in the...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 6 - Views: 415
20190707

Chris's Blog: Disliking the McCanns by Anne Enright
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Disliking the McCanns
by Anne Enright

London Review of Books

It is very difficult to kill a child by giving it sedatives, even if killing it is what you might want to do. I asked a doctor about this, one who is also a mother. It was a casual, not a professional conversation, but like every other parent in the Western world, she had thought the whole business through. She said that most of the sedatives used on children are over-the-counter antihistamines, like the travel sickness pills that knocked me and my daughter out on an overnight...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 241
20190612

PJGA blogspot: Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral
Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral

Thank you for all the support I have received, from all those that believe in justice and in truth, without which it would have been impossible for me to fight this lawsuit.

26 Apr 2016
Statement

Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral (PJGA) was set up by a group of his friends on 1 November, 2009, in response to the decision by Gerry...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 631
20190612

Joana Morais: The McCanns' Injunction: Quotes by the Defence Lawyers
The McCanns' Injunction: Quotes by the Defence Lawyers
by Joana Morais 9 years ago

The following quotes come from notes taken in loco [on spot] at the 7th Civil Court, at Palace of Justice in Lisbon, on the day when the closing arguments were presented by the defence lawyers of the four entities targeted in this case and by the McCanns layer. The order of publication of the said quotes follows the order in which they were presented in court, firstly Dr. António Cabrita for Dr. Gonçalo Amaral’s defence, after Drª. Fátima de Oliveira Esteves on behalf of the Book publisher's...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 592
20190610

AlJazeera Documentary: The McCanns Versus the Media
AlJazeera Documentary: The McCanns Versus the Media
by Joana Morais 11 years ago

A special programme from AlJazeera English examining why the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann turned into one of the biggest media events in the world. Broadcasted...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 0 - Views: 659
20190610

Gonçalo Amaral: "The McCanns knew that I was going to catch them"
The McCanns knew that I was going to catch them - TvGuia
by astro 11 years ago

Moita Flores interviews Gonçalo Amaral

TvGuia invited me to interview my former companion in the PJ, and former coordinator of the Maddie case.

He tells why he was the target of...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 0 - Views: 1153
20190610

Shadplay Blog: Tapas Nine and their lies
Monday, November 1, 2010
Tapas Nine and their lies
They lied when saying they went to the Millenium the first night because the' Tapas' was closed ( Millenium was part of their 'half board' package deal)

"They lied about the checks (every hour then when that wasn’t received well ever half hour)They lied that they were performing the checks themselves (then it became known other men in the group were also checking on the McCann kids)

They lied even after that in the TV interview when Kate says she discovered Madeleine gone ‘on one of my checks’ – it was the only check...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 597
20190610

Hobs: Quote from kate mcCann, from the Jon Corner interview of August 2007. "There's not a textbook about it is there, "What to do when your daughter gets abducted'...?"

Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Quote from kate mcCann, from the Jon Corner interview of August 2007. "There's not a textbook about it is there, "What to do when your daughter gets abducted'...?"
There may not be a book with that title, there are however, decades of statements, reports, interviews and books written by the parents of missing loved ones that tell us exactly how innocent parents...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 908
20190603

Eumenides: Visit to Praia da Luz
Thursday, 19 May 2016

VISIT TO PRAIA DA LUZ

Part one of three posted on CMOMM member tigger's blog:

1.Visit to Praia da Luz
2. Smiths, Exton, SY and the e-fits
3. Ask the dogs....

by Jill Havern - Comments: 0 - Views: 795
20190531

Joana Morais: Freedom of Information Act on John Buck former Ambassador
McCann Case: Freedom of Information Act on John Buck former Ambassador

by Joana Morais 10 years ago

It was Tony Blair and Gordon Brown who were behind the instructions given to the UK ambassador, John Buck, and to the British consul, Bill Henderson (the two senior UK diplomats in Portugal at the time she disappeared), to make sure Gerry and Kate McCann were given all possible assistance.

A few minutes after the return to Faro of the team of experts that the PJ had sent to Leicester, Her Majesty's British...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 820
20190531

Craig Murray: Clement Freud, My Part in his Downfall
Clement Freud, My Part in his Downfall

14 Jun, 2016 in Uncategorized by craig

Commenters on this blog directly caused the exposure of Clement Freud in the ITV story. I published an anodyne obituary in 2009 giving my memories of Freud. One commenter wrote:

He was a notorious old goat and his pursuit of young women could verge on the sinister. I met one of his young ‘victims’ who told me about a job interview with him turning into a very traumatic experience.

And a second wrote the startling

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 836
20190530

Chris Freind, US journalist writes about the Madeleine McCann case

CHRIS FREIND US Journalist

MADELEINE MCCANN’S PARENTS: THE REAL ROYAL COUPLE?
Four years after a British girl disappeared, there are more questions than answers

Posted on 5/10/2011 at 9:21AM

April was a busy time for the Royal Couple.

Preparations had been underway for months to deal with all the publicity that was sure to come. Facebook pages were established,...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 3 - Views: 1185
20190529

THE McCANN'S WAR ON AMAZON
Having just returned from a lengthy holiday, it appears that the book by Paulo Reis is no longer available on any Amazon site. Has this been mentioned in previous topics (I couldn't see any), and if not, is there a valid reason why it apparently has disappeared? I originally purchased the book but it does not open up fully. Can any member assist?

by intimacyandjoy - Comments: 4 - Views: 935
20190523

Joana Morais: Rua Segura: Maddie Case
Welcome home Joana 'xklamation' Morais

Rua Segura: Maddie Case

by Joana Morais 14 days ago

Transcript

Magali Pinto (Rua Segura's Anchor in the studio) - A new lead and a new suspect which the Judiciary Police (PJ) are trying to keep under the utmost secrecy have lead for more...

by Verdi - Comments: 3 - Views: 1010
20190523

Joana Morais: "Maddie", from the absolute mystery to a documentary fever
"Maddie", from the absolute mystery to a documentary fever

by Joana Morais 16 days ago

By Cynthia de Benito

No one knows, everyone speculates. Twelve years after the British girl Madeleine McCann vanished in the south of Portugal, the case resurrects for the umpteenth time in several documentaries that, in the absence of answers, obsessively...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 978
20190523

Joana Morais: Brian Kennedy No Longer Paying for the Maddie Campaign
Brian Kennedy No Longer Paying for the Maddie Campaign

by Joana Morais 10 years ago

The McCanns spokesman assumes that crises has arrived to the Fund

The man who paid Clarence Mitchell, Método 3 and who kept running a real media machine ...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 922
20190518

Joana Morais: PJ confirms that the investigation into the Maddie case is "still open"
PJ confirms that the investigation into the Maddie case is "still open"

by Joana Morais 15 days ago

The clarification of the Judiciary Police comes as a reaction after news were "made public" this Friday and following the "numerous requests" that the authorities are receiving.

The Judiciary Police confirms that the disappearance...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 246
20190516

Good Quality Wristbands Blog
Saturday, 3 April 2010

A Blight On Humanity: Gerry McCann

The result of a much needed and long overdue throw out of all the rubbish I have saved over the months is a pot pourri of bits and bobs that would be better for being aired rather than being hidden away and forgotten.

As with many things that cross our path, particularly when times are hectic and there is lots happening all around, I think we tend to miss much, and it is only in retrospect that we can fully appreciate the content and the implications...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 172
20190501

Joana Morais: Correio da Manhã Interview with Gonçalo Amaral
Interview with Gonçalo Amaral: Cadaver was frozen or kept in the cold

by Joana Morais 11 years ago

Exclusive Interview with Gonçalo Amaral: Cadaver was frozen or was kept in the cold

Gonçalo Amaral regrets that a 'fact-finding inquiry (sindicância) to the investigation was done". In the first interview where he talks about the process, he defends that Maddie died...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 274
20190415

Winnower Blog: He has 3-hour boozy lunches, works only four hours a day and has openly accused Kate & Gerry of killing their daughter
He has 3-hour boozy lunches, works only four hours a day and has openly accused Kate & Gerry of killing their daughter

Winnower: 30th September 2007

He has 3-hour boozy lunches, works only four hours a day and has openly accused Kate & Gerry of killing their daughter.. this is the cop leading the hunt for Madeleine.. IT'S JUST SICKENING
30 September 2007
The Sunday Mirror
Grant Hodgson

EXCLUSIVE THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE DAY 150

Puffing on a cigarette and knocking back beers,...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 435
20190409

Colin Sutton: Madeleine McCann and Operation Grange
Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Madeleine McCann and Operation Grange

At the outset I should say that I don't know what happened to Madeleine McCann. All the evidence available to me – and there is more and deeper information available to the public on this than any case I have looked at – does not convince me of any theory or scenario being proved. Soon, in the coming months when my other projects are less busy, I hope to take a proper analytical look at it all and come up with some conclusions. But as things stand my position...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 482
20190409

Joana Morais: UK Tabloid News: Murder Chief for Maddie
UK Tabloid News: Murder chief for Maddie

by Unknown 9 years ago

PROBE: Det Chief Insp Colin Sutton

Top cop spearheads new probe into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

By Lucy Panton, NoW Crime Editor

BRITAIN'S top murder cop has been lined up to spearhead a new probe into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, we can reveal.

Det...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 177
20190329

Len Port: Journalist

By Len Port
The following chapter is from Len Port's book "People in a Place Apart" - a book about the Algarve - and is reproduced here with kind permission of the author

Chapter Twenty-four

THE MADELEINE MYSTERY

The peaceful seaside village of Praia da Luz was the unlikely setting for what turned out to be the most reported and discussed missing person case in human history. The disappearance has also been one of the most mystifying, controversial and bitter cases of its kind in modern times. For me as a reporter it all started so quietly.

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 302
20180516

Craig Murray
Craig Murray: Historian, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist

Craig Murray, a voice to be reckoned with, a voice not abashed by confronting political convention nor cowered by political correctness imposed through public relations and the UK media.

A voice to be heard, not stifled by libel lawyers of ill repute or governmental mandate - a voice to be aired without constraint.

Let's give him a platform on CMoMM shall we?

by Verdi - Comments: 9 - Views: 2180
20190112

OnlyInAmerica blog: Jane Tanner Liar, Gerry McCann Liar, They Are All Liars
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

[size=18]Jane Tanner Liar, Gerry McCann Liar, They Are All Liars [/size]

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Fact: Jane Tanner became the...

by Verdi - Comments: 7 - Views: 990
20190216

l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun: Kate McCann - Cover Ups
Kate McCann - Cover Ups

'Madeleine' by Kate McCann, written for her THREE children so that they would have 'an account' of the truth.

Been said many times, but surely there is but one TRUTH? Course there is - and IT ISN'T contained in Kate McCanns 'Madeleine' that is simply a version that Kate McCann put together for the...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 945
20190302

Joana Morais: Pedro do Carmo: "Maddie's parents are not suspects. Period."

Pedro do Carmo: "Maddie's parents are not suspects. Period."
by Joana Morais 2 years ago

In an interview with Expresso newspaper, the deputy director of the Judiciary Police, Pedro do Carmo, argues that no police in the world could guarantee results different from those obtained so far in Portugal in the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

"We had never had and did not...

by Verdi - Comments: 3 - Views: 321
20190302

jailhouselawyerblog: Madeleine McCann: What happened to her, and where is she now?
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Madeleine McCann: What happened to her, and where is she now?

Approximately 10 O’ Clock on the evening of 3rd of May 2007, the calm in Praia da Luz was about to be disturbed by Kate McCann announcing that daughter Madeleine was missing. Kate McCann and husband Gerry McCann were quick to assert that an abductor must be responsible for the disappearance of Madeleine. It is illegal for a private investigation to be conducted whilst there is an ongoing police investigation. The police were not convinced...

by Verdi - Comments: 4 - Views: 379
20190221

Paulo Reis Blog: Mark Hollingsworth Investigates The McCann Files
Sunday, 27 September 2009

Mark Hollingsworth Investigates The McCann Files

Disillusioned with the Portuguese police, Gerry and Kate McCann turned to private detectives to find their missing daughter. Instead the efforts of the private eyes served only to scare off witnesses, waste funds and raise false hopes. Mark Hollingsworth investigates the investigators.

by Mark Hollingsworth*

It was billed as a ‘significant development’ in the exhaustive search for Madeleine McCann. At a recent dramatic press conference in London, the lead private investigator David...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 517
20190218

l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun: Sun Goes Down on McCanns
Sun Goes Down on McCanns

Best friends? Antonella Lazzeri (The Sun) with Gerry McCann

I started this blog a while back now. On my first page, the Home Page, I wrote about lying in the sun, the dangers of doing so.

Looks like...

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 341
20190215

Joana Morais: #DNotice, #Maddie #McCann Case related - one of the detectives hired by the couple currently under arrest in UK

Tweet from Joana Morais 03.05.12 0:07

Joana Morais‏@xklamation

#DNotice, #Maddie #McCann...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 0 - Views: 1510
20190125

Joana Morais: The McCanns Stockholm Interview
The McCann's Stockholm Interview
by Guest Author 7 years ago

“Well obviously they were very young, but they have re-counted things that happened prior to May 2007, which has kind of...

by Verdi - Comments: 4 - Views: 1010
20190117

Stevo: Gerry's Tunnel Vision

Gerry’s Tunnel Vision

New Year’s Day 2012 kicked in with the gruesome news of the body of a murdered woman found on Royal property at Sandringham in Norfolk, England. The following day I overheard a US television station reporting the story. The American presenter was talking to a reporter in England and he asked how this would affect the Royals. The response was the...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 1 - Views: 2804
20190205

Joana Morais: Danie Krügel and the 'quantum sniffer machine'
The McCanns, Danie Krügel and the 'quantum sniffer machine'

by Joana Morais 9 years ago

Danie Krügel the inventor of the 'quantum sniffer machine' is back to the UK news, Daily Star of the Express group [the media group that had to pay for out-of-court libel settlements twice to the McCanns and their Tapas friends] bring us a rehash of old news that were published in 2007...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 211
20180810

Deconstructing the Madeleine McCann Story
Deconstructing the Madeleine McCann Story

17th January 2018

by Peter Cullen

Introduction

This is the first in a planned series of articles that will deconstruct the Madeleine McCann story. The study of this story has traditionally been undertaken by those trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Madeleine? I am offering something different, a textual study that will investigate the story of Madeleine McCann as a work of allusion and intertext.

“Intertext – a text that is related...

by Verdi - Comments: 7 - Views: 1210
20190122

The British Psychological Society: Media
Media
Harriet Gross and Jill Owen write.

INTERNATIONAL Missing Children’s Day (25 May) dawned amidst the third week of a media frenzy surrounding the search for missing four-year-old, Madeleine McCann. The widespread coverage has constituted a major part of the sophisticated campaign launched by the McCanns in their attempt to find their daughter.

After the initial days following Madeleine’s disappearance, the McCanns proactively channelled all their energy into their cause. Press reports suggest this shift followed the arrival of a team of experts that included...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 242
20190122

Iain Dale blog: The LibDems Who Are Advising the McCanns
Friday, September 07, 2007

The LibDems Who Are Advising the McCanns

I've spent much of the day with Sky News on in the background. One could be forgiven for thinking that there was no other news today apart from the developments in Portimao regarding the McCanns.

You wouldn't think there was a political angle to the unfolding drama in Portugal, would you? But there is. Kate McCann's lawyer is the former Libdem candidate and blogger Justine...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 257
20190122

Joana Morais: David Hughes McCann's Former Media Adviser in MP's Tax Evasion Scandal
David Hughes McCann's Former Media Adviser in MP's Tax Evasion Scandal
by Joana Morais 8 years ago

by Verdi - Comments: 1 - Views: 274
20190117

OnlyInAmerica Blog: Madeleine McCann Was Not Abducted
Madeleine McCann Was Not Abducted

Introduction: Dr Martin Roberts.
Insight is a truly wonderful thing. It nourishes and advances those who are able to appreciate it. For the rest, knowledge is merely borrowed for the purposes of reference, not genuinely shared. Things are either what they are because we appreciate and understand what has been established, or they are simply taken on trust, on an ‘it is said by others’ basis.

For seven years past a watching international community has been witness to a growing clamour of...

by Verdi - Comments: 4 - Views: 1288
20190119

OnlyInAmerica Blog: The McCann Connection: Now I See
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The McCann Connection: Now I See

At the very end of the article below, the writer, Peter Burden, asks:

If the MPs had asked Yates if he knew who sponsored the Annual Police Bravery awards, I wonder if they would have been surprised to hear that it is in fact the Screws stable-mate, the Sun,

Well, I can't speak for the MPs, but I'm most certainly surprised to be made aware of this little nugget. And having been made aware of it; my, how things...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 391
20190117

ThePottingShedder Blog: The Dwindling Fund ....
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The Dwindling Fund...

After publication of the latest accounts, it appears that the McCanns have frittered away millions of pounds from their private company. Funds are down to £125,000,...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 208
20190117

ThePottingShedder Blog: The Remit Of Operation Grange
The Remit of Operation Grange

Operation Grange
On 12 May 2011 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) announced that, at the request of the Home Secretary, it had agreed to bring its particular expertise to the Madeleine McCann case.
The then Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, considered the request and took the decision that on balance it was the right thing to do. This was subject to funding being made available by the Home Office,...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 213
20190112

OnlyinAmerica blog: Nice Company Home Secretary
Saturday, September 05, 2015

Nice Company Home Secretary

I have so far, though that may well change, resisted the will to produce an illustrated version that would tear to shreds this catalogue of lies, deceit and vulgarities, aka the writings of Gerry McCann.

There are those among us that might argue why the guilty would press for a review of this case?

Equally, a similar question may have been asked of Stalin: Why bother with all these (show) trials when you already know the outcome?

when you already know the outcome...

by Jill Havern - Comments: 1 - Views: 434
20190110

l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun: The Same Kinda Clothes
[size=22]Same Kinda Clothes

Andy Redwood's crechedad.[/size]

"This is the actual photograph taken by Metropolitan Police Officers of the man dressed in the same...

by Verdi - Comments: 11 - Views: 516
20190108

l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun: Payne Pops In
Payne Pops In... for what reason?

The following is taken from the rogatory interview- Leicestershire Police, UK interviewing David Payne, the McCanns friend who holidayed with them at the time Madeleine vanished.

The officer is asking Payne if the McCann children, Amelie, Madeleine and Sean acknowledged him when he popped in on Kate McCann and the three children (Gerry playing tennis) before they all headed out to dine on the evening Madeleine was reported as missing.

Officer 1485 ”

Did...

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 719
20190106

l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun: Smithman
Another blog from the formidable lazzeri, who I might say never misses a trick. What a sad day lazzeri ever decided to throw in the towel and stop blogging but let the master speak for itself.

Smithman

I see 'Smithman' is once again receiving much attention.

For all of the reasons I have given in a previous blog - 'Smith Sighting' - I believe that this family did indeed see a man carrying a child. One of the main reasons is that I cannot imagine any parent putting their young daughter who was around 11/12...

by Verdi - Comments: 3 - Views: 399
20190103

Clarence Mitchell, told The Sun newspaper that Portuguese Attorney-General's comments were not helpful
Madeleine McCann likely dead, says attorney-general
by Joana Morais 11 years ago

by Jill Havern - Comments: 0 - Views: 298
20181229

Joana Morais: Kate and Gerry McCann "We have clues and we will ask for the reopening of the process"
Kate and Gerry McCann "We have clues and we will ask for the reopening of the process"

by Joana Morais 9 years ago

McCann Couple wants to reopen the 'Maddie case'

by Verdi - Comments: 10 - Views: 905
20181222

GONÇALO AMARAL - BRITISH MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN
GONÇALO AMARAL - BRITISH MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN

Monday, December 12, 2011

While The McCanns Pulled Off PR Stunts - Portuguese Police Accused Of Boozy Lunches In The Search For Madeleine By British Propaganda Reporting !

by Verdi - Comments: 0 - Views: 230
20181220

The Mystery of Rag Doll, by IRONSIDE
Friday, 12 February 2010

The Mystery of Rag Doll, by IRONSIDE

by Jill Havern - Comments: 3 - Views: 596